Lunar Missions

China and Russia are set to sign a milestone agreement on joint space exploration from 2018 to 2022, according to the official People’s Daily online news service. The deal is expected to be signed this October and will bring significant benefits…

Gene Cernan, the last human (to date) to walk on the Moon, died on January 16. He was 82 years old. As a member of the Apollo 17 crew in December 1972 (along with Harrison Schmitt), Cernan became the last…

From GQ Magazine UK, background on German automaker Audi’s plans for a mission to the Moon: Audi has officially gone interplanetary. Well, sort of. This is the brand’s very own lunar rover, which it will send to to the moon….

Luna Society International has pledged financial support, potentially hundreds of millions of dollars, toward a program to return humans to the Moon in the next decade. Through memberships in the Luna Society, the organization intends to raise at least $100-million (USD), with…

Japan’s Hakuto team, competing for the Google Lunar X Prize, has put its Moon rover prototypes through their paces at the Tottori Sand Dunes on Sept. 27 ahead of the competition, which seeks to complete a robotic moon mission by the end of…

We are Luna Society International, and we believe it’s time to stop talking about the Moon — it’s time that we return humans to the Moon. It’s time that we, the people, go back to Moon. It’s time that we…

KOUROU, French Guiana — More than 30 years after the Apollo astronauts walked on the Moon’s surface, a European space probe has been launched to investigate its far side in a mission that could finally answer questions about the origin…